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Consider the following short case as you respond to the next nine questions: ABC Consulting's employees include management, consultants and office staff.The company accepts engagements related to internal control design and evaluation, as well as enterprise risk management plans.A customer can purchase the two services independently of one another.The office staff bills clients on a monthly basis with terms of 2/10, n/30.All consulting clients must sign a contract, which is also signed by an ABC manager.One member of ABC's management team assigns at least one consultant to work with the customer until the engagement is complete.Consultants can be assigned to multiple engagements simultaneously, but every consultant must always be working on at least one engagement.Each client may have only one contract with ABC at a time.How many agents would be depicted in the rightmost column of a REA model of the case?

Definitions:

Alternative Use

The value or potential benefit that is foregone as a result of using an asset or resource in a particular way instead of another possible way.

Sunk Costs

are past expenses that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered or changed, and thus should not affect future business decisions.

Avoidable Costs

Expenses that can be eliminated if a particular decision is made, not incurred in the absence of the decision.

Fixed Costs

Fixed costs are those expenses that do not change in total despite changes in the volume of goods or services produced or sold.